Brian Wong

I’ve seen plenty of interesting and unique “resume sites” where people are trying to get the attention of the companies that they really want to work for. Sometimes it’s a Facebook ad, a video or something using the service itself, like a slideshow. Read More

The most interesting new feature in iOS 6 to me was Passbook. The idea that I can now have quick access to movie, plane and other tickets, as well as relevant information for where I am at any given time, is an absolute time-saver. After I heard about Passbook, I immediately reached out to Brian Wong, CEO of Kiip to find out what the company had planned.
Kiip is the reward platform that works… Read More

During today’s Amazon Kindle Extravaganza, one of the slides that was popped up during the event got the attention of quite a few of us. It was a slide showing an in-app offer on a Kindle device.
It’s an interesting play for Amazon, as it grows itself beyond just an “e-reader”. Read More

In Silicon Valley, failure has been democratized. You don’t need a lot of money to fail. Nor do you need any previous experience. Take, for example, Brian Wong and Roger Dickey – two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who, in spite of their youth, are already steeped in failure. Wong, who was the youngest person ever to receive venture capital funding and is now the CEO of… Read More

Kiip, the seven month-old mobile startup, is finally coming out of stealth today and revealing an entirely new model for mobile in-game advertising, one that offers users value instead of fighting for their attention.
Going beyond the banner and text ads used by industry leaders iAd and AdMob, the team behind Kiip has thought long and hard about the way people actually play games and has… Read More